This may look like “Rule 5 Friday” at first glance, but it’s way more important than that. Be sure to read the article too!
Daily Mail (UK): Belgian politician risks Muslim backlash after using teenage daughter dressed in burka and bikini for campaign against Islam
(h/t: Blazing Cat Fur)
By Rick Dewsbury
Last updated at 1:33 PM on 3rd February 2012A Belgian politician has risked causing uproar among Muslims after starting a ‘Women Against Islamization’ campaign featuring his 19-year-old daughter wearing a burka and a bikini.
Filip Dewinter, leader of the far-right Vlaams Belang party, uses a shot of his daughter An-Sofie Dewinter in the dark blue bikini for the political campaign.
The glamorous teenager dons a burka that covers her head and face, while the rest of the Muslim garment is draped over her back.
The provocative image is likely to inflame tensions among Islamic groups and nationalists in the racially-divided country.
The poster shows the words ‘Freedom or Islam?’ written on a red bar across Ms Dewinter’s breasts.
Further down the poster a black panel with the words ‘You choose!’ is seen covering the teenager’s crotch.
The extremist Vlaams Belang party claims that it wants to convince women to take a stand against Islam.
Ms Dewinter told the Belgian press she does not feel used by the party.
She said: ‘I’ve suggested (the poster) myself, I have learned to live with it but I have had everything up to death threats made at me.’
She said that she ‘ wanted to make this statement.’
She added: ‘What is the greatest contrast with a niqab? Nude.
‘The campaign fits in perfectly with how I feel about the whole issue. As women, we must choose: freedom or Islam.’
The teenager claimed that she had been threatened by Muslim groups
She added: ‘Death threats and criticism no longer scare me off.’
Her father, the party’s leader, said: ‘Women are always the first victims of Islam. We want to make clear that they have a choice.’
The potentially incendiary poster comes after The Islamic fundamentalist group Shariah4Belgium was slammed for its aggressive stance.
The group opened the country’s first Sharia court, a putting it on a collision course with the country’s nationalists.
Vlaams Belang spoke out against the Muslim courts and said that all legal disputes should be settled in the country’s civil judicial system.
Let’s expose some of the “spin” in the Daily Mail article:
First of all, there’s this phrase in the article title: “…using teenage daughter in burka and bikini…” Filip Dewinter is not “using” his teenage daughter in this campaign. She suggested the poster; it is not unduly revealing; and, at 19, she is of age to make the decision to be photographed. As a young adult who grew up in a political family, she thoroughly understands and accepts the risks involved. Kudos to her for participating in the Women Against Islamization campaign.
“…likely to inflame tensions among Islamic groups and nationalists in the racially-divided country.” Yeah, we get it; if you object to the burqa or the niqab, you must be a raaaaacist. Belgium is divided in two different ways, neither of which have to do with race: by region (socialist French/Walloon versus conservative Flemish) and by ideology (Islam versus freedom). Islam is a totalitarian ideology; it is no more a “race” than communism is, and non-Muslims have the right to reject it.
“Filip Dewinter, leader of the far-right Vlaams Belang party…” Here we go again. Patriotism in western Europe has become a dirty word. Any European political party or organization that takes a stand for national sovereignty or against Islamic infiltration will be labeled as “far-right.” In the mainstream media, “far-right” is a code word for raaaaacist or neo-Nazi. This smear against conservatives is especially misleading in view of the fact that Hitler was a Marxist, always a man of the Left.
“The extremist Vlaams Belang party claims that it wants to convince women to take a stand against Islam.” Extremist is another code word that the mainstream media uses to make a person, group, or idea seem too far outside of the mainstream to be a respectable topic for discussion. On the one hand, jihadi violence is blamed on a “tiny minority of extremists” within Islam, rather than on mainstream Islamic doctrine set forth in the Qur’an, the hadiths, and the schools of Islamic jurisprudence. On the other hand, any party opposing Islamic expansionism is labeled extremist, as a ploy to make the reader feel secretly ashamed for agreeing with it.
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Tags: Belgium, burka babe, Burqa, Filip Dewinter, Flanders, niqab, Vlaams Belang
This is too funny!
Vlaams Belang!
Charles Foster Johnson
What a hoot!
I love the daily mail
read it every day
I am a proud “extremist”. The labels of the ignorant mean little to me. The only problem with them is that they tend to sway the ignorant masses, who don’t look beyond the labels to see what the “extremism” is really all about.
Speranza wrote:
He’ll have a fit when he sees this.
Rodan wrote:
ooooh…let the fun begin
@ Rodan:
But, but, he doesn’t read over here…
@ Iron Fist:
Well DOD is his first read. He probably glances over here.
Very good. I’m sure the Islamists will throw a fit, demanding this young woman’s head on a platter because of the insult to the prophet Mo.
To be fair, if the ad were here in the US and she was pregnant and wearing a habit, protesting the Catholic church’s stance on birth control, Catholics would (understandably) be upset. The difference, of course, is that there wouldn’t be calls for anyone’s head.
Does this burqa make my ass look big?
Heads should be up.
http://epic.org/foia/epic-v-dhs-media-monitoring/
tfk been thinking, if all of U.S. on the net just put all the words and phrases that the DHS etal “General Dynamics” “Google” monitor to figure out who the “freedom fighters” are, into every blog post, every e-mail ect then they would have a hell of a time with the traffic they had to read.
Fight Back, stay free.
Back on subject for a change, ms tfk was on her computer a bit ago,
on Yahoo open page, there was a head line story about this great wonderful photo that is winning awards and kisses from the msm etal.
From yemen , young wounded “islamic awakening” guy in the arms of a islamic woman,, ie full black sack, eye slits only.
liblers would have us all in black sacks and back in the dark ages as long as they could drive votls to visit our little shacks.
All your bikinis are belong to us!
@ waldensianspirit:
Declare the crudase and be unite!
@ Rodan:
Glances? Yeah, at least ever time his corrolater tool (google alert) pings him.
Rodan wrote:
VLAAMS BELANG!
Rodan wrote:
Chucky is going off about Rick Santorum’s “anti-science” stance and Peter Brimelow speaking at CPAC.
The Osprey wrote:
-Chuckles
The Osprey wrote:
I love seeing chunkels head explode in the morning, in looks like victory…
@ The Osprey:
Makes me hope Santorum wins the whole shooting match, just to watch the meltdown over there. It would be very, um, special…
@ The Osprey:
Charles is good for laughs.
Iron Fist wrote:
Special… Hell it would be EPIC, but so would speranza’s melt down, and maybe Rodans…
@ Iron Fist:
If chairman obama loses, there will be tantrums aplenty, all across the board.
7-7-7??
@ doriangrey:
I could care less at this point if Santorum wins the GOP nomination. I accept the fact the Republican Party and its voters are Big Government Nanny state supporters like the Democrats. They just disagree on what that Big Government wants to do.
That’s why next week I’m switching my registration to the Libertarian Party. I’m done with the Socialists (Republicans) vs. Marxists (Democrats) show.
This is not the Republican Party I grew up to. I didn’t leave my party, it left me. So the GOP can nominate who they want. I don’t give a shit anymore.
O/T, just saw this at Atlas Shruggs:
CNN Fires Entire Jewish Staff Of Israel Bureau – And Retains Only Arab Reporters (Before It’s News)
quitters never win
@ citizen_q:
This is blatant anti-semitism.
Bumr50 wrote:
Hooray for Japan!
Show us how it’s done!
taxfreekiller wrote:
So very true, I’ve tried to quit drinking and smoking many times but this big booming voice in the back of my head keeps saying…..” Mama Din’t Raise No Quitter ! “
@ citizen_q:
OH MY GOD
you might want to sent that to Brent Bozell at his newsbusters organization
Something is tickling the back of my mind – something to do with and Iranian strike
Moe Katz wrote:
Two, in fact.
Rodan wrote:
Yes.
If I were Jewish, I would not want to work there.
@ John Difool:
AA is for quitters!
eaglesoars wrote:
I wonder if their video cameras will come with an RPG attachment?
eaglesoars wrote:
I just emailed this to Chris Plante – you may have seen him as a guest on Fox, usually on Megyn’s show. He’s got his own radio talk show now and he’s great. The thing is – he used to work for CNN – and knows where the bodies are buried
Prebanned wrote:
I don’t call it the caliphate news network for nothing.
@ eaglesoars:
Interesting, thanks!
Sunlight is a good disinfectant.
So, we have to know Obama never liked the idea of Biden as VP, to middle of the road Biden, not a pure hate America commie.
So, how to get Biden to quit or stand aside,,,, this Catholic deal,
piss him off , start a dust up,
enter Ms Clinton as a peace maker and they agree next VP should be ms Clinton….
Then she takes credit for talking Obama out of the condoms deal.
Biden bites the dust.
Iron Fist wrote:
AA is for alcoholics…..Imma drunk.
John Difool wrote:
Well pass me something to drink then damn it, I’m just a wannbe drunk…
doriangrey wrote:
Not sure I can pass that far, I’m on the east coast. Will you settle for a fax ?
Which reminds me, isn’t that how the IDF sent Rachel Corrie’s body back home to her parents, via fax ?
John Difool wrote:
O(h come on, just put the beer bottle in your computers cup holder and e-mail it…
@ doriangrey:
I don’t usually e-mail a beer, but when I do it’s Dos Equis™.
Stay tech savvy my friend.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
Heh
John Difool wrote:
ROTFLMAO… Hey, I can live with that…
@ John Difool:
I don’t usually drink beer, but when I do it sure as f*ck ain’t Mexican…
Bumr50 wrote:
Dos Equis Amber is actually quite good. Leaps and bounds past that watered down piss aka, Corona.
John Difool wrote:
Meh, Corona aint bad, it aint great but it bad, personally I prefer Sam Adams Boston Lager or Stone’s Arrogant Bastard, but I have a hell of a time getting my brother or my partner to drink either of them.
Bumr50 wrote:
Huh? There’s nothing wrong with either Dos Equis or Corona, their both good beers. Not as good as Sam Adams Boston Lager or Stone’s Arrogant Bastard, but they are good beers.
John Difool wrote:
And here I thought Schlitz was the Piss Water Above All Others!
@ doriangrey:
Blech.
Never had the Dos Equis Amber.
Yuengling Black & Tan is also another one of my favorites as well as good ole’ Amberbock.
John Difool wrote:
Both excellent choices, though the Yuengling Black & Tan is unquestionably the better of the two.
Bumr50 wrote:
Well, you did admit to not being a beer guy…
<—– Passes Bumr50 a 3 liter Growler of Stone’s Double Bastard…
Hey…. It’s only one bottle of beer…
@ doriangrey:
Wait…that was a “cultural innuendo”…or something…
I suppose that was a little harsh.
If I’m going to pay for an “import” though, I’ve got at least ten countries ahead of Mexico.
I actually like Kalik, from the Bahamas.
Bumr50 wrote:
Ya think….
@ doriangrey:
I had the privilege of working with Aran Madden, the guy who brews this beer – Fatty Bomblatty, when he was in the Burgh at a now defunct local brewpub.
This particular beer is the only one I’ve had, as he’s in Wisconsin, but it’s killer.
The guy does great work.
Bumr50 wrote:
Hmmm, generally speaking I’m not to fond of the Belgian styles, I like my beer’s considerably stouter.
@ doriangrey:
They do the ‘Three Feet Deep.’
Never had it, it’s only available in Pittsburgh and Philly outside of Wisconsin/Minnesota it looks like.
I LOVE hoppy beers and am dying to try their ‘Hopperbolic,’ but I’d have to have the distributor special order it, and the Obama economy precludes such extravagance.
@ Macker:
Your new avatar. I have to ask. Is that WindUpBird?
Hey, we have a new thread. Bring the party here.